Quakertown man jailed for prescription fraud incident

By
Carl Hessler Jr., The Mercury

Saturday, November 17, 2012

NORRISTOWN — A Bucks County man is headed to jail after he attempted to pass a fraudulent prescription at a Hatfield pharmacy.

Issac Green, 34, of the 200 block of South Eleventh Street, Quakertown, was sentenced in Montgomery County Court on Wednesday to nine-to-23-months in the county jail after he pleaded guilty to a felony charge of criminal attempt to commit forgery in connection with a July 2012 incident at the Rite Aid Pharmacy on North Broad Street in Hatfield.

Judge Steven T. O’Neill, who accepted a plea agreement in the matter, also ordered Green to complete three years’ probation after he’s paroled from jail.

An investigation of Green began on July 25 when Hatfield police responded to the pharmacy for a report of a male attempting to obtain drugs by using a forged prescription. A pharmacist told police that the male, who was later identified as Green, dropped off a prescription, for the painkiller Percocet, which was in the name of a Philadelphia woman and presumably issued by a Philadelphia doctor, according to court papers.

However, the pharmacist contacted the doctor and learned that the doctor had not prescribed the Percocet, according to the arrest affidavit filed by Hatfield Police Officer Jeffrey Richardson.

When Green returned to the pharmacy to pick up the prescription he was confronted by police, court papers indicate. Green initially claimed he was picking up the Percocet for a relative and that he was unaware that the prescription was fraudulent, according to court papers.